Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 321: Jean Michel Bernard – Générique Stephane ++ Link Wray & The Wraymen – Rumble ++ Bernard Chabert – II Part En Californie (He Moved To California) ++ Pete […]

Tradition runs rampant around Thanksgiving: generations of old recipes, football, Alice’s Restaurant, The Last Waltz, and, of course, a parade of balloons shutting down NYC. What else do you need? If you thought you were covered in the Thanksgiving tradition department, we did too…until a few years ago, when someone blew the dust off a […]

Peter Walker has lived a remarkable life. The 76-year-old guitarist was a contemporary of Sandy Bull, Fred Neil, Karen Dalton, and Lowell George; a musical director for Timothy Leary’s famed “Celebrations;” a student of Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan. He recorded two LPs for Vanguard, Rainy Day Raga (1967) and Second poem to Kamela, […]

I don’t fool with Black Friday anything…but if you do, Josh Tillman’s score for the short film The History of Caves is out later this week, via Sub Pop, on vinyl (limited run of 2k copies). A digital version will hit iTunes, etc November 26th. Full stream, after the jump…

(Re-posting the following from 2010, as Damien Jurado and Richard Swift’s next collaboration, Jurado’s lp Brothers And Sisters Of The Eternal Son, is out early next year.) Damien Jurado and Richard Swift – Other People’s Songs Vol. 1: A free digital download featuring the pair covering nine of their favorite songs, ranging from Bill Fay […]

It’s been 40 years since These Trails was privately pressed in Hawaii, and two years since Drag City reissued the previously forgotten LP. A lush tapestry of native Hawaiian folk and kaleidoscopic, synthesizer-laden psych, These Trails blends sincere island homage with ’70s psychedelia. Margaret Morgan’s cool, dreamy vocals — sometimes playful, sometimes brooding — carry […]

Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. You can download Broadcast’s Black Session, that we aired during the second hour of today’s show, here… SIRIUS 320: Jean Michel Bernard – Générique Stephane ++ Damien Jurado – Silver […]